This is all I get from the logs:
cat stack_trace.log
0: ELF(do_elfio_glibc_backtrace()+0x113) [0x99d6883]
1: ELF(LLAppViewer::handleSyncViewerCrash()+0x10) [0x80ecf10]
2: ELF(LLApp:

3: ELF(default_unix_signal_handler(int, siginfo*, void*)+0x15a) [0x9f137fa]
4: [0xffffe410]
cat SecondLife.log (the last bit of it)
2009-01-24T21:46:26Z INFO: start: LLEventPollResponder:

2009-01-24T21:46:26Z INFO: setSender: LLHTTPSender:

2009-01-24T21:46:26Z INFO: LLVoiceClient:

2009-01-24T21:46:26Z WARNING: setSeedCapability: Ignoring duplicate seed capability
2009-01-24T21:46:26Z INFO: LLVoiceClient:

2009-01-24T21:46:26Z INFO: LLVoiceClient:

2009-01-24T21:46:27Z INFO: LLEventPollResponder: LLEventPoll initialized with sender 8.2.35.12:12035
2009-01-24T21:46:27Z INFO: start: LLEventPollResponder:

2009-01-24T21:46:27Z INFO: setSender: LLHTTPSender:

2009-01-24T21:46:28Z INFO: createFloater: LLIMMgr::createFloater: from def6a94a-7365-4f67-b3f7-8d0fdd135034 in session c8369df4-4a83-ae9b-1937-68e9d19a1c0a
2009-01-24T21:46:28Z WARNING: createDummyWidget: Making dummy button named profile_callee_btn in im_floater
2009-01-24T21:46:28Z WARNING: createDummyWidget: Making dummy button named moderator_kick_speaker in im_floater
2009-01-24T21:46:29Z INFO: do_elfio_glibc_backtrace: Opening stack trace file /home/g1rlb0t/.secondlife/logs/stack_trace.log
2009-01-24T21:46:29Z INFO: do_elfio_glibc_backtrace: Finished generating stack trace.
2009-01-24T21:46:29Z INFO: handleViewerCrash: Handle viewer crash entry.
2009-01-24T21:46:29Z INFO: handleViewerCrash: Creating crash marker file /home/g1rlb0t/.secondlife/logs/SecondLife.error_marker
2009-01-24T21:46:29Z INFO: handleViewerCrash: Created crash marker file /home/g1rlb0t/.secondlife/logs/SecondLife.error_marker
2009-01-24T21:46:29Z INFO: handleViewerCrash: Handle viewer crash generating stats log.
2009-01-24T21:46:29Z INFO: writeDebugInfo: Opening debug file /home/g1rlb0t/.secondlife/logs/debug_info.log
It doesn't really give me much to go on :/ Everything looks normal, I hit the play button and the crash happens immediately. If I'm luck I'll see a single frame.
Any help to get better messages would be greatly apprecitated. I got voice working flawlessly and now video is the only thing left to get it complete. I don't run windows at all and my husband says he'll go pure linux if I can get streaming video working in SL, lol.
Any hints?
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Gentoo 64-bit on Intel Q6600 (quad core) 2.40GHz with 4gigs of RAM (I'm RAID 0, but I doubt that would matter), SLI NVIDIA 9600s, crappy soundcard EMU10K1 (I didn't like the onboard one), kernel 2.6.27
I've emerged all the gstreamer stuff I could find and all the quicktime ebuilds. I even did some of the gnome things that have been suggested in previous threads. I've tried a 32-bit chroot, but I must be doing something wrong there too, because it's the same deal :/